Amazon Japan Haul - MOMOLAND, Girls' Generation & Books

This is the first order I've received from Amazon Japan for a fair while and it probably will be the last for a long time. This is because the government is bringing in new GST restrictions for online stores and Amazon has decided to cut Australia from using their overseas site. Not entirely sure what will happen on July 1st when the changes come in effect, but as soon as I heard the news last month I placed an order straight away on Amazon Japan for some items I was after. So here are the items I received in my recent order! 

I got a Chara Parfait キャラぱふぇゲーム magazine which is the 2018 Winter Special released in December last year. The main reason I got this magazine was for the ガールズモード 4 Girls Mode 4 content, but you also got a cute Sumikko Gurashi playing cards set. The cards come in a nice steel case which I haven't set up yet, they're still in the cardboard box. I'll blog about the ガールズモード 4 pages on here soon as there are some great pictures of the game in the magazine. I have an older issue of the Chara Parfait magazine which was devoted to ガールズモード  3 Girls Mode 3 and I've written a detail blog post about that here!

Sumikko Gurashi playing cards.

ガールズモード 4 pictures of brand representatives.

Picked up this adorable needle felting book because I wanted to learn how to make animals. Also mainly because it has the cutest Shiba Inu's in it and I need to know how to make like a million of them.

The next item was kind of a random purchase as I originally wasn't planning on getting it. Since Amazon is changing soon, I thought I'd look through for any cheap items I could add to my order. When I was going through artists that I'm looking to collect albums of, this Girls' Generation single came up for only 300JPY. It was on sale from about 2000JPY and no clue why it was so cheap. So I thought why not for only 300JPY plus 300JPY shipment fee per item.

Daiso Adventures & Haul

Visited Daiso a few times in the recent weeks and picked up some new cute items. So I thought I'd put them all into one big post to share what I found. First off, Daiso finally got my all time favourite stickers back in stock! I've been waiting to see if they got them back in and they finally did. I was so happy when I saw them so I picked up two packets this time so I have enough to last me a while.

Found them!

Daiso had some other adorable stickers in stock over the last few weeks. The store has this range called Animal Party that is available in a variety of items such as post-its, stickers, note paper and letter sets. I took a photo of the Shiba Inu ones as that breed of dog is my all time favourite animal. Haven't picked these up yet as whilst the illustration is cute, it's not the normal style of Shiba illustration that I'm drawn towards.

Daiso Haul - Needle Felting Supplies

Recently I've become interested in needle felting. It's just fascinating the creations people make with needle felting and how lifelike some of the products look. Sometimes I've been scrolling through and seen a post of a Shiba Inu and clicked on it only to discover it was actually a needle felted Shiba Inu and not a real life. It's just amazing what people create!

So I was in Daiso recently and decided to pick up some needle felting supplies to do out the craft. The Daiso near me only had a few items in stock so I got the ones that were available which was a starter set and two packets of wool felt.

I just wanted to get a small selection of stuff first to try out needle felting to see if I like it or not. It doesn't seem too difficult, I've watched a few tutorials on youtube and understand the concept of the craft. Daiso didn't have any sets with instructions and just these two packets of coloured wool. I thought I'd try making a small item first before attempting something like the cat and dog pictured on the packet. The needle felting starter set comes with a mat and one needle. It looks like a great set to start out with and was super cheap. The needle looks easy to use and hopefully won't hurt too much if you accidentally stabbed yourself.